February 24

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 24

 1933 - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
 1937 - 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
 1938 - Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
 1939 - Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
 1940 - Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
 1941 - Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
 1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
 1942 - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
 1943 - Gen-major Bradley flies to Algiers
 1943 - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
 1944 - Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
 1945 - Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
 1945 - Manila freed from Japanese
 1945 - Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
 1945 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
 1946 - Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
 1948 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
 1949 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
 1949 - V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
 1950 - Labour wins British parliamentary election
 1951 - "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 perfs
 1951 - Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
 1951 - Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB
 1951 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
 1952 - Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
 1955 - "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
 1955 - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
 1960 - Italian government of Segni falls
 1960 - US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1
 1961 - Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
 1962 - "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
 1962 - "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
 1962 - General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1965 - Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
 1965 - East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt

 1965 - The Beach Boys record "Help Me Rhonda"

 1966 - Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1968 - "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 perfs
 1968 - 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
 1968 - Discovery of 1st pulsar announced
 1968 - Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
 1968 - Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
 1968 - US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
 1969 - Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby

 1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience played its last British concert before breaking up

 1970 - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
 1970 - Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
 1970 - KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
 1971 - Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
 1974 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
 1974 - Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
 1976 - Cuba adopts its constitution
 1976 - Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in NYC
 1976 - Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
 1977 - Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
 1978 - Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
 1979 - Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas

 1979 - "Roxanne" released by The Police

 1979 - War between North & South Yemen begins
 1980 - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
 1980 - Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
 1980 - Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
 1980 - USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
 1981 - Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
 1981 - Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
 1981 - Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
 1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
 1982 - 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins
 1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92

 1983 - Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
 1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
 1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
 1984 - Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
 1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
 1985 - Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
 1985 - Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
 1985 - Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
 1986 - Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
 1986 - Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
 1987 - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins

 1987 - Fats Domino receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th annual Grammy Awards

 1987 - LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
 1987 - Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
 1988 - Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
 1988 - South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
 1988 - Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody

 1988 - Alice Cooper announces he will run for Governor of Arizona as a member of the "Wild Party"

 1989 - 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
 1989 - Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
 1989 - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
 1989 - US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
 1991 - "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs
 1991 - End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
 1991 - US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
 1993 - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins